Human erythrocytes were treated by a series of SH-reagents, including maleimides, iodo compounds, mercurials and oxidizing agents. Rates of Li efflux into Na-rich medium, Li leak and Lii-Nao countertransport were then determined. Of the 13 different reagents studied, only N-ethylmaleimide, iodoacetamide and iodoacetate inhibited selectively the countertransport activity. The effect of the various reagents indicates that the sensitive SH-groups of the countertransport system are not externally exposed. N-Ethylmaleimide was used to probe for changes elicited by substrate cations in Lii-Nao countertransport. In Na- and Li-free medium, inhibition of Lii-Nao countertransport by N-ethylmaleimide of 35% was reached within 2 s. In Na or Li medium, maximal inhibition was twice as great, but was attained much more slowly, within 10 min. Kinetic data and Hill plot analysis indicate the involvement of two classes of SH-groups: one expressed in the various media with and without substrate cations, and an additional one, which becomes specifically available to N-ethylmaleimide in the presence of external Na or Li. The affinity of Na to the site promoting inhibition by N-ethylmaleimide (apparent Km 12 mM) is higher than the affinity of Na to its external countertransport site (apparent Km 25 mM), as reported by Sarakadi, B., Alifimoff, J.K., Gunn, R.B. and Tosteson, D.C. (1978) J. Gen. Physiol. 72, 249–265). Reactivity of was not modified by the media tested. It is concluded that external Na and Li cause a conformational change in the protein(s) of the countertransport system in human erythrocytes. 相似文献
Pretreatment of Chang liver cells with (0.5 or 1 mM) stimulated Na+-independent uptake of leucine at low concentrations (?1 mM). The stimulatory effect of on the uptake of leucine measured in Na+-replete medium was completely blocked by the addition of (5 mM), which shows that the L system participates in the stimulation. The Na+-dependent uptake of glycine was depressed by pretreatment. The stimulation of the Na+-independent component of leucine uptake continued for at least 30 min after treatment, while the inhibition of glycine uptake was progressive with time and the Na+-dependent uptake of leucine became depressed later, after the treatment. It has been demonstrated that treatment of cells with is capable of increasing the Na+-independent influx of leucine and at the same time slightly decreasing the efflux of it. These results suggest that attacks the Na+-independent system of amino acid transport at the reactive SH groups(s) of relevant protein(s) in favor of specific activation of that system in this cell. 相似文献
The relationship between the binding patterns of soybean agglutinin, peanut agglutinin (both in their native (unaggregated) form and in their polymerized form), and of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin, to neuraminidase-treated lymphocytes from different sources, and the mitogenic activity of these lectins, was studied. In all cases investigated, binding of a lectin to lymphocytes which resulted in stimulation was a positive cooperative process. Our findings support the assumption that clustering of receptors and conformational changes in membrane structure are prerequisites for mitogenic stimulation. 相似文献
The uptake of the fungicide dichlone (2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone) by human erythrocytes was extremely rapid, reaching a maximum within 5 min of treatment. Most of the dichlone taken up was present in the interior of the cell; only a small fraction of the pesticide (less than 5%) was bound to the cell membrane. Dichlone (3 · 10?5M-10?4M) induced a rapid loss of intracellular potassium from the erythrocytes; the leakage of K+ varied with the fungicide concentration as well as with cell concentration. Pretreatment of the cells with glutathione was able to reduce potassium loss. Cells exposed to dichlone showed increased osmotic fragility. Dichlone also inhibited Na+-K+ ATPase, which is associated with active ion transport. However, the leakage of potassium in dichlone-treated cells does not appear to be related to the interference with active ion transport. An extensive loss of potassium within a relatively short time after treatment suggests that dichlone produces its effect by increasing passive cation permeability, probably as a result of direct action on the membrane structure. Dichlone was able to induce hemolysis, but only at concentrations higher than those which resulted in K+ loss. The loss of hemoglobin appeared to be mainly due to osmotic swelling of the treated cells. Exposure of red cells to dichlone also resulted in a rapid and extensive formation of methemoglobin as well as a denaturation of hemoglobin. Thus, dichlone not only may be capable of lowering the capacity of erythrocytes to transport oxygen but also alters their permeability. 相似文献
1. 1. Fuscin, a mould metabolite, is a colored quinonoid compound which reacts readily with −SH groups to give colorless addition derivatives.
2. 2. Binding of fuscin to mitochondria has been monitored spectrophotometrically. Fuscin binding is prevented by −SH reagents such as N-ehylmaleimide, N-Methylmaleimide, mersalyl or p-chloromercuribenzoate. Conversely, fuscin prevents the binding of −SH reagents as shown with N-[14C]ethylmaleimide. Once bound to mitochondria, fuscin is not removable by washing of mitochondria.
3. 3. High affinity-fuscin binding sites (Kd = 1 μM, N = 4–8 nmoles/mg protein) are present in whole mitochondria obtained from rat heart, rat liver, pigeon heart or yeast (Candida utilis). They are lost upon sonication but are still present in digitonin inner membrane + matrix vesicles. On the other hand, lysis of mitochondria by Triton X-100 does not increase the number of high affinity binding sites indicating that all these sites are accessible to fuscin in whole mitochondria. The number of fuscin high affinity sites appears to correlate with the glutathione content of mitochondrial preparations.
4. 4. Fuscin as well as N-ethylmaleimide and avenaciolide are penetrant SH-reagents;
5. 5. Fuscin interferes with the ADP-stimulated respiration of mitochondria on NAD-linked substrates, several functions of the mitochondrial respiratory apparatus being inhibited by fuscin in a non-competitive manner, but to various extents: (a) The electron transfer chain (Ki in the range of 0.1 mM); (b) the lipoamide dehydrogenase system (Ki = 5–10 μM); (c) the transport systems of phosphate (Ki ≈ 20 μM) and of glutamate (Ki = 3–5 μM); (d) the ADP transport, indirectly (Ki ≈ 10 μM).
6. 6. Like N-ethylmaleimide, fuscin inhibits the glutamate-OH− carrier, the inhibition of that carrier bringing about an apparent increase of aspartate entry in glutamate-loaded mitochondria by the glutamate-aspartate carrier.
7. 7. The inhibition of phosphate transport by fuscin probably accounts for the inhibition of the reduction of endogenous NAD by succinate in intact pigeon heart mitochondria.
8. 8. By binding the −SH groups of mitochondrial membrane specifically unmasked by addition of micromolar amounts of ADP, fuscin, like N-ethylmaleimide, prevents the functioning of ADP translocation.
9. 9. Because of their specific and analogous effects on some well defined mitochondrial functions such as glutamate transport and ADP transport, fuscin and N-ethylmaleimide can be distinguished from other −SH reagents. The lipophilic nature of fuscin and N-ethylmaleimide which accounts for the accessbility of these compounds to hydrophobic sites in the mitochondrial membrane or on the matrix side of this membrane may be partly responsible for their characteristic inhibitory effects on mitochondrial functions.
The organomercurial reagent p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonate (PCMBS) is an inhibitor of osmotic water permeability in the human red cell membrane. We have found that thiourea, when added along with PCMBS to a red cell suspension, interferes with this inhibition and at high enough concentrations prevents the inhibition from developing altogether. For a 2 mM PCMBS concentration Ki = ; 3 ± 1 mM. When thiourea is added at a later time, the PCMBS inhibition, which normally takes about 20 min to develop fully, is halted and remains fixed at the value attained by that time. Thiourea also inhibits the reversal of PCMBS inhibition by a 10 mM concentration of cysteine, the half-time for reversal increasing by more than an order of magnitude when [thiourea] = ; 50 mM. Possible implications for the nature of the water and urea transport pathways across the red cell membrane are discussed. 相似文献